With produce and flower displays, baking, preserves, arts and crafts, local stalls, dog show, barbecue, beer tent, donkey rides, ferret racing, falconry display, bouncy castle, coconut shy, boules, face-painting, and much more.
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Tennis Camps at Trowbridge Tennis Club
Learn new skills, gain confidence, compete, and enjoy team games. All courses are led by Senior Qualified LTA professional coaches to ensure coaching and safeguarding standards. All equipment can be provided if required. Sessions are divided into age and skill levels and run 9:30am-12:30pm (5-8 years and 9-12 years), and 1-4pm (13+ years). Suitable for...
Tennis Camp at Kingswood School
Learn new skills, gain confidence, compete, and enjoy team games. All courses are led by Senior Qualified LTA professional coaches to ensure coaching and safeguarding standards. All equipment can be provided if required. Sessions are divided into age and skill levels and run 10am-1pm (5-8 years), 10am-4pm (9-12 years and 13+ years). Suitable for ages...
Creative Kids Workshops
A week of creativity with a variety of activities that might include pottery, baking, painting, sewing, drama, stained glass, lego cities, soap-making, dance, creative writing, puzzle design, singing, yoga, papier mache lanterns, scavenger hunts, mandalas with an exhibition and afternoon tea on Friday. Suitable for ages 6-13 years.
Woodland Orchestra at Westonbirt Arboretum
Make a variety of instruments from woodland materials, including a frog stick, rain maker and seed shaker, then try the sound challenges using your instruments, creating a soundtrack as frog goes on a woodland adventure. Suitable for ages 4+ years.
Wild About Bees at Westonbirt Arboretum
An informative discovery day about free-living honeybees and their lives led by members of the Natural Beekeeping Trust. Step into the observation hide to watch bees at work, try bee puzzles and challenges to enter the prize draw, and create bee crafts to take home. Suitable for ages 3+ years.
Sensory Woodland Walks at Westonbirt Arboretum
Guided walks that venture off the beaten path, encouraging families to explore the arboretum through smell, touch, sound and sight. Sessions run 10.30am–12pm and 1.30–3pm.
In Tune with Wellbeing at Westonbirt Arboretum
Outdoor wellbeing walks with gentle yoga, designed for families to unwind together beneath the trees. Pre book to avoid disappointment on the day. Wellbeing walks will run at allocated timeslots throughout the day, with sessions suitable for different ages.
Natures Soundtrack at Westonbirt Arboretum
Days of playful exploration, connecting with trees through sound creativity.
If Trees Could Talk at Westonbirt Arboretum
Uncover the secret lives of trees by learning to read their signs. Look at tree rings from different trees to see what this shows us about how they have lived – revealing the past environmental conditions they lived in such as droughts and fires. Create your own tree ring of life, and have a go at...
Creature Conversations at Westonbirt Arboretum
Is it possible to talk to a woodpecker? This gentle day invites families to sit quietly among the trees, map the sounds of woodland wildlife and sharpen listening skills.
Gnome Dressage at the REME Museum
This year the REME Museum Gnomes are saddling up for a summer of dressage fun. Explore the competing teams, discover their score cards, choose your champion and place your vote in the Winner Pot. Reception staff will advise where to go, what to do and where to get your trail pack.
Hadestown with Zenith Youth Theatre
The ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice brought to life in a bold new musical production. When Eurydice is drawn into the industrial underworld ruled by Hades, the young musician, Orpheus, embarks on a dangerous journey to bring her home. Armed only with his music, he challenges the powers of the underworld and risks everything...
Solar System Trail at the Herschel Museum
The planets of our solar system have hidden around the Museum rooms this summer. Once you’ve spotted them all, colour in a planet sticker to take home. Free with museum entry, and children enter the museum for free with a paying adult.
Summer Crafts and Costumes at No1 Royal Crescent
Visit the learning space at the end of your visit and enjoy Georgian-themed games, craft activities and dressing up. Free with museum entry, and children enter the museum for free with a paying adult.
Decoupage Shells at No1 Royal Crescent
Make a trinket tray from a seashell and patterned paper, inspired by the shell grottoes built in Georgian country houses and then go and check out the wallpapered “shell grotto” created by artist Glenn Brown in the current exhibition. Drop-in, guided activity, no pre-booking required. Free with museum entry, children enter the museum for free...
Tower Thursdays at Beckford’s Tower
Weekly creative activities in the paddock. 30 July: origami flowers; 6 August: miniature gardens; 13 August: stained glass flowers and butterflies; 20 August: creative play. Suitable for ages 5-12 years; limited places, pre-booking essential.
Summer at the base with Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance
With a wide variety of activities including bouncy castle, inflatable assault course, giant games, circus skills and more, photos with mascots pilot Marsha and paramedic Wilber, CPR demonstrations, games and prizes, merchandise for sale and local traders, food stalls, fully licensed bar, and more.
Teddy Bear’s Picnic at Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance
Bring your teddies and join in with children’s games and activities on the lawn, have your picture taken with teddy bear mascots Marsha and Wilber as well as light refreshments and new teddy bear adoption centre.
Football Development Camp at King Edward’s School
Led by an FA-qualified KES football team coach, the four-day course gives secondary school individuals an opportunity to develop advanced techniques, elevate their skills, and unlock their full footballing potential. Suitable for children currently in Years 7 -10
Summer Art Course at King Edward’s School
Working from still life arrangements and natural forms, students will learn how to transform observational drawings into expressive, imaginative abstract artworks. Across the four days, participants will explore a wide range of artistic processes including drawing, painting, printmaking, and low relief sculpture. Techniques introduced include collagraph, Tetra Pak printing, heat press printing, and plaster relief....